Open AccessMultimodal imaging of an idiopathic florid vascularised epiretinal membrane: Course, treatment, and outcome
Author(s) -
B Poornachandra,
Edwin C. James,
Aditya Aseem,
Chaitra Jayadev,
Srinivasan Sanjay,
K T Ashwini,
Santosh Gopi Krishna Gadde,
Naresh Kumar Yadav
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/ijo.ijo_2363_19
Subject(s) - medicine , epiretinal membrane , optical coherence tomography , visual acuity , ophthalmology , histopathological examination , surgery , pathology , vitrectomy
Idiopathic vascular epiretinal membrane is an extremely rare entity and the pathogenesis and clinical course is not clearly understood. A 53-year-old hypertensive female patient presented with complaints of altered vision in the right eye. On examination, her vision was 20/30 and fundoscopy showed a vascularized epiretinal membrane (ERM), which was confirmed on spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. No primary cause was found after investigations. The symptoms and ERM showed slow progression over the next three years with a visual acuity of 20/60. She underwent surgery for removal of the ERM, which was subjected to histopathological evaluation. This is a unique case of a florid proliferative vascularisation of an ERM in the absence of any identifiable cause, which had a good visual outcome following surgery.